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I love sleep. I miss sleep. I used to get about 6 hours a night, but I really need 9 to feel good. My sleep has gotten somewhat better and I get about 8 hours most nights. But most mornings I wake up already feeling sleepy and exhausted.

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Okay this is the more serious sleep-related post.

I once had to stay up for two days straight on a Red Cross mission. It consisted of working with Lebanon refugees in an airport and the time lapse between the plane arrivals were of 3 hours. After being up for thirty hours, under pressure and constantly alert you do not function well. I tried getting a 20 minute nap in a corner and some jerk woke me saying I was making the Red Cross look bad.

I didn't want to be all WTF about it but seriously, a Red Cross rescue agent that looked like she just got hammered in front of national TV is supposed to set a good example?

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Daenna wrote:

Okay this is the more serious sleep-related post.

I once had to stay up for two days straight on a Red Cross mission. It consisted of working with Lebanon refugees in an airport and the time lapse between the plane arrivals were of 3 hours. After being up for thirty hours, under pressure and constantly alert you do not function well. I tried getting a 20 minute nap in a corner and some jerk woke me saying I was making the Red Cross look bad.

I didn't want to be all WTF about it but seriously, a Red Cross rescue agent that looked like she just got hammered in front of national TV is supposed to set a good example?

Eff.

I'm in awe of you. In your shoes I probably would not be ABLE to stay awake.

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Sharra Fett wrote:

I'm in awe of you. In your shoes I probably would not be ABLE to stay awake.

And, to top it off, we didn't have Red Bull at the time

Thanks, I treated myself with a full day of doing nothing afterwards and I know airports like nothing else now. I really wasn't able to stay away on the second day and had to leave when they announced they needed my team for a third round. I felt like crap about it for 2 seconds but I missed my bed too much!

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Eww gross Redbull. The worst was an allnighter with my church. I only went a day without sleep so that wasn't bad I hadn't realized I had a double header to umpire the day after. For the plate game the coaches were pretty pissed at my strike zone.

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Ahh... i do enjoy it when i can get it. If i can catch it in the right place too. Its been easier to come by since I upgraded my bed too. I used to have one of those horrid twin mattresses with the springs. Then my parents went and got a fancy king bed. I got the fancy queen air mattress. I can usually guarantee 3 hours of sleep if im not up in pain and discomfort. Most of the time i function on around 4 hours of sleep. I do not often get the chance to get anymore, especially on the weekends. I think a good part of the reason why i simply don't sleep more is that I naturally have a night owl pace, and I'm forced to live in a day time society. (Where are these vampire societies when ya need them???)

I've stayed up 24 hours and more I think the longest was 36. Back in the day I'd have sleep overs (with girls who now no long have anything to do with me...) that would last for days.We'd be up all night. Sleep like 2/3 hours then start all over again. I soon will be undertaking a similar task of driving a long distance straight through. I only hope I'm up for it.:)

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Sleeping is awesome, but because there are only so many hours in a day, it must occasionally be put off to make time for playing video games or something. And staying up until 1 is no great feat, nor is sleeping 10 hours. I commonly sleep 10 unabated, and can sleep for 13 or 14 if lazy enough. And staying up til 4 is common, and I have (as no doubt many of you have done) occasionally forgone sleep for a day or two.But still, sleeping is great. Unless the dreams suck.

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LOL. Sleep does not often make me happy. My body does not always like it either. How often do you wake up and you feel worse than when you went to bed? Who looses the ability to do many things with their hands because they went to sleep and now their body needs to "warm up" for lack of a better phrase? So often sleep does mean things to me. And like today causes me issues because i ended up sleeping to noon. That was a fight with my family i did not need.

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Everyone needs to "warm up" after they sleep. It's a part of the waking up process. You can't expect to jump out of bed and be instantly at top working condition. About the only way to do that is if there's something wrong and you're able to do it cause of adrenaline. But on a normal day you do have to wait a bit before you're "awake".

For the whole day/night thing, get a job overnight somewhere. There's plenty of places that are open all night, or need people overnight. Like stores have nightcrew and some fastfood have overnight drivethrough or something. There's overnight security jobs, if you're into that. I'm not sure where all else might need overnight people.

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Si Titran wrote:

Most of the time i function on around 4 hours of sleep. I do not often get the chance to get anymore, especially on the weekends. I think a good part of the reason why i simply don't sleep more is that I naturally have a night owl pace, and I'm forced to live in a day time society.

I hear you. That's part of it for me too. I love sleep. Been in lack of it for about a year at the moment. When I'm done with my degree I want to try hibernation.

Wish I could still skip nights like Rev and the others, and be fine about it. Sweet 16.

Cast iron and treadmills? Oh yes. Still sculpting me to what I really want to be, and I love it. :)